Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate. – Richard Parks Bland
The only way you can get good, unless you’re a genius, is to copy. That’s the best thing. Just steal. – Ritchie Blackmore
As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you’re a financial genius. – Ron Chernow
If you were to ask me to name three geniuses, I probably wouldn’t say Einstein, Newton…you know. I’d go Milligan, Cleese, Everett. Sessions. – Ricky Gervais As David Brent, in The Office (UK).
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. – Robert Quillen
All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O’Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don’t have that kind of wit and genius. We don’t do that. We sit down and have some accidents. – Padgett Powell
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ‘Soho’ poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent. – Quentin Crisp
I’m a huge, huge fan of Chris Morris. I think he’s a genius, and it is not a word I use very often. I think he’s fantastic. – Robert Webb
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius. – Robert Green Ingersoll